The Conservative Party of Canada held its National Convention over the weekend in Calgary Canada. This is a huge boost to the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and others opposing the current euthanasia push in Quebec.

"In the absence of appropriate medical services, it is impossible to give a free and informed consent to receive physician-assisted suicide. By not having access to quality and rapidly accessible health care, a person may end his or her life prematurely."

The BC Supreme Court rendered a significant decision in favour of protecting vulnerable people at risk of significant abuse by way of the withdrawal of fluids and food in the case Bentley v Maplewood Seniors Care Society.

This is a great little reflection from The B.C. Catholic newspaper on the risk that the Quebec euthanasia bill poses for vulnerable people and the death penalty, removed in Canada for the very same reason: